>        Have you tried the fix suggested in:
>        http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=5348
>        (it fixes whats ounds like the same problem on sparc)
>
>                David/absolute

I opted for recompiling tcpdump an libpcap from the origian sources.
It's running perfectly now.  The autoconfigure script of libpcap checks
if the target platform allows misaligned accesses (and sets it correctly
for the pmax...).  Seems this flag was set wrong for the 1.3.2 tcpdump...

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